Carolyn Lei-Lanilau

of Hakka heritage -- her Chinese mother Mildred Chong Lau, born
on Kohala

her father John Winfred/Winfield -- Chinese, Hawaiian, and
Portuguese, born in Nu'uanu, O'ahu

sister Jacqueline Lokelani

daughters Eirelan Kai'ipo and Kalea-Qyana

M.A. in English, San Francisco State, specializing in Chinese
poetry, linguistics, and William Blake

after graduation worked for the gestalt psychotherapist
Frederick S. Perls

expert on Chinese women's secret language of Hu Nan Province

1989 American Book Award for her first book of poetry, Wode
Shuofa --My Way of Speaking

Ono Ono Girl`s Hula, University of Wisconsin Press, 1997

widely anthologized, including The Best American Poetry of
1996, Making More Waves: New Writing By Asian American Women
edited by Elaine H. Kim, Lilia V. Villanueva, and Asian Women United
of CA Paperback $6.95 0-807-05913-7. Chinese American Poetry: An
Anthology Edited by L. Ling-chi Wang and Henry Yiheng Zhao
Paperback $6.95 0-295-97154-1 University of Washington, 1991, and
others

has appeared in such journals as The Bloomsbury Review, The
American Poetry Review, Manoa, Yellow Silk, Zyzzyva, and
Calyx.

has been a lecturer at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and at
West O'ahu, Tianjin Foreign Language Institute in China, and Cal
State- Hayward.